Description
Loose leaf volume of chromolithographs published in 1877 by Montaner and Simon Editors, Barcelona, corresponding to the “General History of Spain” and Zamalloa Modesto Lafuente, renowned journalist and official historian par excellence.
Measures 481 x 337 mm. Thick paper in very good condition, but has stains and the passage of time as well as several holes in the fold. Very rare to find full volume. There are scattered leaves very sought after by collectors and historians in general.
This double sheet corresponds to map Spain until the union of the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon, from 1257 to 1515.
The “General History of Spain” Modesto Lafuente was the first Spanish-History Nacional of liberalism, and the rapid and prolonged success of the publication of his work made him the most widely read writer of the nineteenth century history, becoming considered “the father of the Spanish national history” and still the most quoted historian of our nineteenth century. With continuous reissues and continuations reaching the second decade of the twentieth century, the work will decisively influence the creation of new historiographical genre of Music National-stories, reaching a great prestige among the authors of manuals, the contents play the ontological conception of the past of the Spanish nation, summarized by Lafuente in the “Preliminary Discourse” and narrated as a continuous time sequence in the thirty volumes of the work.
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